On Thursday 12 March 2009, Roland Dreier wrote: > > By the way, the endian comment in bitmap.c needs some loving: > > > > http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.28.7/lib/bitmap.c#L35 > > > > The s390 file needs to be config-independent: > > > > - include/asm-s390/bitops.h > > + arch/s390/include/asm/bitops.h > > > > and the ppc file is nowhere to be seen. I will put a driveby patch on > > the to.do list. > > The ppc file is arch/powerpc/include/asm/bitops.h.
Ah right, so the commentary should just reference arch/ instead of /..asm-<arch>. I am still hoping to hear an actual argument why little endian bitops are "more natural" than big endian. I don't know of any myself, either in terms of machine instructions, cycle times or whatever. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Tux3 mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.tux3.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux3
